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How a Minimally Designed Robot can Help Implicitly Maintain the Communication Protocol

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Author	Youssef, Khaoula Okada, Michio
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	With an increasing demand for minimally designed robots, the research field of human–robot interaction (HRI) has to meet new and challenging requirements. One of these challenges is in the difference between the user’s retained mental model consisting of the instructions triggering the robot’s different behaviors and the robot’s previously taught instructions by the user. More specifically, we mention here the divergence between what was remembered by the non-expert user or believed taught to the robot in a previous HRI instance and what was actually taught to it. This divergence could lead to a waste of time when the robot is reused before it could be used effectively to achieve a task. Some users may not have the patience to reteach the robot a new version of instructions or what we call a communication protocol (CP) if they realize that they have forgotten the previous version of CP. In our previous work, we studied how a non-expert user could establish a CP in a context that required mutual adaptation using a minimally designed robot named sociable dining table (SDT). SDT is a dish robot, placed on a table which behaves according to knocks issued by the human. The human knocks on the table to convey an instruction in order to make the SDT undertake a specific behavior. The SDT had to learn through the received knocking how to choose the correct behavior. We remarked, based on previous experiments, that a CP could be built incrementally during the HRI. The formed CP was not only personalized to the pair of the non-expert user and robot, but also to the HRI instance. This means that the CP changed each time the human started a new interaction session with the SDT. The main reason behind the change was the non-expert users’ forgetfulness of the previously established communication protocol (PECP) and their issuing of a different set of new instructions to the SDT rather than maintaining the old instructions and continuing to teach the robot new skills. In the current study, we investigate how we can modify the way the minimally designed robot communicates back to the human so that the CP could be maintained and time wasted constructing a new CP could be avoided. This paper describes feedback strategies combining inarticulate utterances (IUs) with the minimally designed robot’s visible behaviors, to trigger an increased remembrance of the PECP. The results provide confirmatory evidence that using IUs combined with the minimally designed robot’s visible behaviors assist in driving non-expert users to maintain the PECP and avoid time wastage and task achievement failure.
Starting Page	431
Ending Page	448
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18754791
Journal	International Journal of Social Robotics
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	18754805
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2017-02-25
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Dual coding Inarticulate utterance Protocol of communication Recall Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Control and Systems Engineering Social Psychology Electrical and Electronic Engineering Human-Computer Interaction

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